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The guest-services kiosk at Fashion Outlets Chicago, the gargantuan new high-end outlet mall near O'Hare International Airport, rents strollers, wraps gifts, changes currency and can even get your clothes dry-cleaned within 24 hours. But its unlikeliest service also is one of the most convenient imaginable: It will check bags for flights on any of five airlines and print your boarding pass. Provided everything goes right, you next see your bags in the baggage claim at your destination. The manager of the service, provided by Florida-based Bags Inc., Nicole Deckert, said the company believes it is the only mall in the United States to provide such a service. (For example, a spokesman...

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